Can FreeBSD run on FreeScale MPC8533E PowerQUICC III Processor?

[Bear]

hi,
I dont have so much knowledge on embedded system. So I hope I can find something detailed about the installation guide ;)
This device is designed by my friends and me. Now its only on planning stage. We would use FreeScale MPC8533E or some similiar chipset as its processor.
I havnt chose a bootloader yet. Could you recommand me some bootloaders? There is no experience for me to run FreeBSD on embedded systems. I have only run Linux on it with some bootloaders such as vivi and redboot and I also have some experience running FreeBSD on x86 systems. :(

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Bear
2010-09-16

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From:Rafal Jaworowski
Send Date:2010-09-15 23:06:43
To:Bear
CC:Zied Fakhfakh; freebsd-ppc
Subject:Re: Can FreeBSD run on FreeScale MPC8533E PowerQUICC III Processor?


On 2010-09-15, at 14:49, Bear wrote:

> hi,
> Thx for your answers!
> Could you give me some more information on FreeBSD on MPC8533E? For example, is there any installation guide on FreeBSD document site?
> BTW: I am working on build a powerful router based on this chipset.

There are some old (partial) installation notes at http://wiki.freebsd.org/Eval8540Boot, but they would miss on important details which come into play after around r210053 (switch to FDT convention). We really need to update these guidelines :-)

Is your device a custom design or something commonly available? What is the firmware / 1st stage bootloader?

Rafal


> -------------------------------------------------------------
> From:Rafal Jaworowski
> Send Date:2010-09-15 15:00:33
> To:Bear
> CC:freebsd-ppc
> Subject:Re: Can FreeBSD run on FreeScale MPC8533E PowerQUICC III Processor?
> 
> 
> On 2010-09-15, at 07:27, Bear wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> I wanna make a network device with MPC8533E chipset. But I was wondering if FreeBSD can run on it? If not, is there any chipset of FreeScale MPC series can run FreeBSD? thx!
> 
> The PQ3 is supported and FreeBSD should run on the MPC8533 chip itself, although there might be some work needed for the particular board / platform (we only support CDS and DS dev systems out of the box). What is the board you're going to use?
> 
> Rafal
>